Go for it Mickey. If nothing else will, complying with the election laws will make you a conservative. Just try to figure out what you can say on your blog once you run for office, and whether other bloggers can link to you.

Maybe there is no restriction, but won't it be fun paying a lawyer $400 an hour to find out?

Now, with the new 'smaller bill,' and Warren Buffett's song and dance about costs, costs, costs, I think we will see Wreck-con-silly-ation all over the place.

Pelosi gets away with it because she spends hours in makeup. And, then comes out briefly for sound bites. Weird sound bites. True. But I don't even know if there's a real person there, or not. Has she ever been seen for longer periods of time? And, can you tell me why she's been tasked to carry this dynamite, uphill? Isn't she old, and rotten? Won't her makeup melt?

Here in Virginia, we supposedly have two moderate-conservative Democrat senators. But we may as well have a couple of hard-line Marxists for all the good it has done us since they both have done nothing but vote the way Reid and Pelosi have told them to vote.

I frankly don't expect much from Althouse when it comes to politics, but even she should be able to see that supporting reduced imm. isn't really a "conservative" position. Considering the massive unemployment in the U.S., supporting plans to reduce the numbers of low-wage workers being imported are an American position.

Obviously, a lot of Democrats and Republicans are on the other side, supporting policies that hurt their fellow citizens in order to enrich themselves in one way or another.

If you want to know the truth about this issue and all the things you won't hear from almost all r/w or l/w bloggers and the MSM, I've been covering immigration since 2002 in thousands of posts. Not every post is about imm. matters, but most are. And, I've worked very hard to organize my archives so you can find the information you need; see the search tools in the right sidebar.

"Semi-conservatives will be the death of us all. Better the shitstorm of pure marxism full in the face. Only then will the great counterswing commence."

Yes, Democrats have an entire crop of Manchurian Candidate RINOs already positioned inside the Republican Party ready to continue their takeover of the country.

Kaus is one of them ... liberals with a little bit of spine, but still liberals nonetheless.

You saw Mitch Daniels' attempted coming out party earlier this week with coordinated posts here at Althouse and at the other "conservative" blogs.

There was even a post over at National Review by Tevi Troy (um, who?) saying what a good week Daniels enjoyed after fawning profiles in the WSJ and NY Times.

Look folks: If the New York Times finds a Republican acceptable ... he's a Manchurian Candidate who should be immediately purged from our party. And Mitch Daniels is getting John McCain-type coverage from the New York Times.

Here's the NY Times Newest Maverick (taking over the reigns from loser John McCain):

Meanwhile, the Democrats are paralyzed by their right wing, who demands, surprise, that everything be done their way without compromise. They held the health care bill for months trying to get Republican votes.

Kaus could present himself as a representative of people, however rare, who 1) think things through; and 2) aren't afraid to think for themselves, at the risk of being persecuted by the true believers.

A virus killed my computer years ago so now I just surf on my bberry. (BTW note to Ann...the new layout is better but seems to load much slower). So I miss out on bloggingheads.tv. But I remember Kaus being pretty sensible but between him and a conservative there is no contest.

Hey Alpha have you noticed that Greece and California are both bankrupt? They are in the inevitable endstate of the welfare state.BTW Arnold is NOT a conservative and neither was Bush.

I would vote for Mickey Kaus. Especially in California, where the odds of getting a real conservative are so slim. Mickey's honest, and has spent the past several years as an honest observer of politics--at least, when we disagree, I know why.